Romantic Secrets #19

This Charlton romance gem from January serves up exactly the kind of heart-in-your-throat tension the genre does best — a red-haired woman in a yellow dress shares an intimate moment with a dark-haired man in a suit, while a stern blond man fills the open doorway behind them, his expression somewhere between wounded and cold. The charged triangle practically leaps off the cover, promising the sort of emotionally rich storytelling the title "Journey to Heartbreak" more than lives up to. A lovely snapshot of 1950s romance comics at their most dramatically satisfying.